U.S. Army Troops with Alpha Troop, Regimental Support Squadron, Combined Task Force Dragoon, conduct safety checks and mount weapons on trucks before convoy operations at night July 30, 2013 at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan. The troops conducted a resupply mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. (U.S. Army Photo by Spc. Joshua Edwards)

The deaths were the second and third fatalities announced by the Department of Defense on August 2. Representatives of Operation Inherent Resolve announced that another service member was killed in a non-combat related incident in Kuwait that same day.

Fox News notes that the ambush occurred just days after attackers armed with “stick bombs” and a car bomb broke down the gates of the Iraqi Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul and executed “numerous” guards on July 31.

There are currently 8,400 U.S. military personnel operating in Afghanistan as part of the U.S.-led effort to beat back the Taliban insurgency that’s roiled the country since the end of NATO combat operations there in December 2014.

This is a developing story. We will update this post with more details as they become available.